Attorney Andre Tremblay and I met for two hours
with President Slobodan Milosevic in the isolation cell where he
is being held at the ICTY, the "War Crimes Tribunal" at
The Hague, Netherlands. I am authorized to report that he is
feeling well and in good spirits. During our conversation we
discussed many things. He said, among other things:

"I am the moral winner. I am proud of everything I
did for my people and my country and everything I did was
honest. I only exercised the right of every citizen to defend
their country and that is why they have illegally arrested me.
If you are looking for war criminals, the address is not
Scheveningen [district in which the 'Tribunal is located] but
the headquarters of NATO."

He is being kept in isolation and under twenty-four hour
surveillance with cameras on him all the time. During the first
five days the lights were kept on 24 hours a day so it was
impossible for him to sleep. He complained to them, asking,
"What are you trying to do, torture me?" Now only the
bathroom light is kept on 24 hours.

I asked him why he is in isolation. Why isn't he in the
general population? He said, "When they first brought me in
here they said they would keep me in isolation for 30 days
because they were concerned about my security with the other
prisoners." I asked him if there was any danger to him from
the other prisoners. He smiled at that and he said, no, that was
a statement made to create a certain public impression, in fact
the other prisoners had gotten him word, from their families to
his family that they wanted to be with him and help him any way
they could.

I said "They don't have any right to keep you in
isolation, even under their own regulations. This should be
appealed immediately."